# 2025-26 Participants

**Source**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/ipia/what-we-do-pages/international-research-academy/2025-participants.html
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The 2025-26 cohort of participants was chosen from an outstanding pool of applicants. Each member has committed to:

- attend and actively participate in all group meetings and make the program a priority;
- meet regularly with their mentor over the course of the year;
- develop and submit a research concept note before completion of the program; and
- participate in the group trip to Brazil.

Thaisa Cantu-Jungles

Food Science

Mentor - Cathie Aime, Botany and Plant Pathology

Fernanda da Cunha

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Mentor - Amanda Deering, Food Science

Hinayah Rojas de Oliveira

Animal Sciences

Mentor - Sylvie Brouder, Agronomy

Siddhartho Paul

Agronomy

Mentor - Jake Ricker-Gilbert, Agricultural Economics